BROWN PHALAKOPE, OI 
nym of Edward’s, cock coot-footed tringa, No. 143, and 
recorded the latter bird under the name of hyperborea—a 
specific appellation, which Temminck and other ornithologists 
have sanctioned, but which the laws of methodical nomencla- 
ture prohibit us from adopting, as, beyond all question, hyper- 
borea is only a synonym of lobata, which has the priority, 
and must stand. 
M. Temminck differs from us in the opinion that the 7’. 
lobata of Gmelin, vol. i. p. 674, is the present species, and 
refers it to that which follows. But, if this respectable orni- 
thologist will take the trouble to look into the twelfth edition 
of Linneus, vol. i. p. 249, No. 8, he will there find two 
false references, Edward’s No. 308, and Brisson’s No, 1, 
which gave rise to Gmelin’s confusion of synonyms, and a 
consequent confusion in his description, as the essential 
character in both authors being nearly in the same words 
(vostro subulato apice inflexo, &c.), we are at no loss to infer 
that both descriptions have reference to the same bird ; and 
we are certain that the lobata of the twelfth edition of the 
former is precisely the same as that of the tenth edition, 
which cites for authority Edward’s 46 and 148, as before 
mentioned. 
I shall now give the short description of the bird figured in 
the plate, as I find it in Wilson’s notebook :— 
Bill, black, slender, and one inch and three-eighths in 
length. In the original, the bill is said to be one inch and 
three-quarters long. Lores, front, crown, hind head, and 
thence to the back, very pale ash, nearly white; from the 
anterior angle of the eye, a curving stripe of black descends 
along the neck for an inch or more, thence to the shoulders, 
dark reddish brown, which also tinges the white on the side 
of the neck next to it ; under parts, white ; above, dark olive ; 
wings and legs, black, Size of the turnstone. 
The specimen from which the following description was 
taken was kindly communicated to me by my friend Mr 
Titian RB. Peale, while it was yet in a recent state, and before 
